Conspicuous consumption Quote by Thorstein Veblen

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but…

— Thorstein Veblen

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable…

— Thorstein Veblen

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends…

— H. L. Mencken

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

— Thorstein Veblen

“It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their…

— Sandye Gloria-Palermo

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic…

— Lin Yutang

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means…

— Ben Jonson

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

— George Herbert

. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.

— Kevin Kruse